# Senior Software Engineering Manager, Managed Gateways SREs

Hiring organization: [Kong Company](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/kong-company)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/1efca3af-599f-4eeb-98bd-cfa49cf7bb11

Listed on Kong Company's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Washington, United States
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 153000 – 218000 USD per year

## Summary

Lead a newly-formed team of Site Reliability Engineers managing Kong's cloud-hosted API gateway service, responsible for maintaining enterprise-grade uptime and performance while staying hands-on with critical implementations. The role suits experienced engineering managers who thrive in high-ownership environments and can balance strategic team-building with direct technical contribution.

_Our summary, not Kong Company's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Grafana, Incident Management, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus

## Required

- Lead and manage Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps teams
- Design and operate highly available distributed systems on cloud platforms
- Extensive hands-on Kubernetes and container orchestration in production
- Golang or similar modern language proficiency for infrastructure automation
- Observability principles and tools experience
- Manage critical incidents and perform root cause analysis

## Nice to have

- API gateway, service mesh, or network proxy experience
- Open-source contributions or SRE community participation
- Cloud platform certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer, CKA, CKAD)
- Background in developer tools, infrastructure software, or API management

Apply on Kong Company's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kong/da83b9b4-a4ab-40af-99ac-0c3fabae3cc5/application